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Nearly three months ago, Morocco told us, through an avalanche of dispatches widely relayed by its official and unofficial media, lies according to which the Republic of Slovenia had changed and revised its position on the Western Sahara issue and that the Slovenian Foreign Minister, who was then visiting Rabat, had announced this fundamental change in her country's foreign policy from Rabat, thus confirming, according to Morocco's presumptions, that the Republic of Slovenia had joined the list of countries supporting the alleged Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara and the autonomy plan.

But as the saying goes, the rope of lies is short, so here is the Republic of Slovenia announcing from its capital and through the voice of its Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tanja Fajon, its firm and constant position regarding the Western Sahara issue as well as its permanent and continuous support for the inalienable and imprescriptible right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination in accordance with the resolutions of international legality emanating from the General Assembly (GA) or the UN Security Council.

 The Republic of Slovenia did not content itself with the statement made by Minister Tanja Fajon to the press, and wanted to concretize its position through an official joint communiqué, a statement signed by Slovenia’s Foreign Minister and her Algerian counterpart Ahmed Attaf at the end of their discussions held Friday in the capital Ljubljana.

The two parties published the text of the joint communiqué on the official pages of the foreign ministries of both countries.

Morocco's fictitious victories thus collapse one by one, its lies and fables about international support for its illegal occupation of Sahrawi territories crumble one after the other, as do its allegations about the increasing number of countries recognizing and supporting the autonomy plan as a solution to the Western Sahara conflict.

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